dead-beat
Example Sentences
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Point three is-some odd conflation between leaving people alone in their private lives and dead-beat dads.
From Time • Jan. 29, 2013
But on a rainy evening of "dead-beat, hungover idleness", he was seized with the idea of walking across Europe to the gates of Asia.
From The Guardian • Oct. 12, 2012
Instead of hating her for the transgression, what about feeling sorry for her that she can’t do any better than a dead-beat dad with anger issues?!
From Slate • Mar. 6, 2012
British Novelist Francis King, 34, pitches his inhumane comedy on the rise and fall of a young Greek spiv of the postwar dead-beat generation.
From Time Magazine Archive
He favored the recoil anchor escapement in his clocks and the Graham dead-beat anchor escapement with a seconds' pendulum.
From The Borghesi Astronomical Clock in the Museum of History and Technology Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, Paper 35, the Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin 240 by Bedini, Silvio A.
